University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is a collegiate public research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209 after scholars left the University of Oxford following a dispute with local townspeople, it is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world and the third-oldest in continuous operation, and it received a royal charter from King Henry III in 1231. It includes 31 semi-autonomous constituent colleges, all of them self-governing, and more than 150 academic departments, faculties and other institutions organised into six schools. Undergraduate teaching centres on weekly small-group supervisions in the colleges, and the university includes the oldest university press in the world. In this atlas it appears as the home of the Institute of Criminology and of the Prisons Research Centre directed by Alison Liebling.